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It was classic Larry Ellison on stage, part brilliant computer scientist, part hammy comedian, always entertaining. Oracle OpenWorld, his company's mammoth annual convention that virtually shuts down the heart of San Francisco's SoMa district, will continue through tomorrow.

And Pivotal’s big data platform and Pivotal GemFire, in particular, is powering some of them. Pivotal GemFire, for anyone who needs a refresher, is a distributed in-memory data management solution for enterprises creating high-scale custom applications.

Yesterday Salesforce completed its acquisition of RelateIQ, a startup that combines CRM and data science to get the right messages to the right person at the right time. The sales price was $392,133,512 -- not bad for a company that was founded three years ago.

Ok, we’re being a little funny with the headline, but, seriously, data science provides more and better insights — faster — when it’s a team sport. And the ability to leverage data-driven intelligence at the speed of business is what it’s all about.

And when do they invest, they’re hardly silent partners. “We have the capability to use our money, our time, our effort, our expertise, our brain power, and the Google brand to help build great companies,” said David Drummond, chairman of Google Capital.

Or read beyond this first sentence: “Another day, another set of choice words hurled at one Hadoop vendor by another. This time, it’s Hortonworks doing the hurling, claiming that Cloudera’s business model isn’t designed for today’s big data market.

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